Therapeutic and preventive functions of Puerto Rican espiritismo
Within the Puerto Rico community, the indigenous healing system called espiritismo has been extensively studied in an attempt to evaluate and understand its success in helping Puerto Ricans. The purpose of this paper is to analyze espiritismo, emphasizing its preventive functions within the Puerto R...
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| 格式: | Print Article |
| 語言: | English |
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1989
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Homines
Year: 1989, 卷: 13/14, 發布: 2/1, Pages: 267-276 |
| Further subjects: | B
Puerto Rico
B 宗教團體 B 传统医学 B Puerto Rico 宗教團體 Traditionelle Medizin |
| 總結: | Within the Puerto Rico community, the indigenous healing system called espiritismo has been extensively studied in an attempt to evaluate and understand its success in helping Puerto Ricans. The purpose of this paper is to analyze espiritismo, emphasizing its preventive functions within the Puerto Rican community. The paper is based on research done in Puerto Rico for five months, which included participant observation at spiritist centers and interviews with espiristas and spiritist healers |
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| ISSN: | 0252-8908 |
| Contains: | In: Homines
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